Printing apparatus and printing method
US6334659B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jul 7, 2000 |
| Grant date | Jan 1, 2002 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 7, 2020 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06K15/107
- WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
By performing printing by a reduced number of main scanning times and by a bind pitch of a period which is imperceptible to human vision, a printing apparatus and a printing method for forming an image of visually imperceptible banding artifacts is provided. For this purpose, in a printing apparatus wherein a printing head is scanned for a plurality of times in a main scanning direction and at each scanning the printing head is divided into a plurality of blocks and printing is made to a region corresponding to each of the blocks by multi-scanning printing, the region is formed by printing one divided region in each of the plurality of scans in a transporting direction.
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